CURING TUBERCULOSIS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17810, 9 July 1923, Page 11

CURING TUBERCULOSIS.

NEW SWISS METHOD. LONDON. Jury SI. According to the Genera comfpan dent of the "Daily Notts," Dr. Jester. a surgeon at tho Geneva Cantonal Hospital, has been experimenting since 1990 with a vaccine for tuberculosis, known as Gamealn. The treatment is similar to . the Dreyer treatment, the chief difference being that Gamealn aims at dfanfoas the tatty' covering of the bacilli already inthe system, whereas IYofcasor Dreyer injects into the patients ' the dead bacilli, stripped of the fat. Dr. Jenter has treated 200 serious cases in three years is Geneva.''- A similar number was treated at Vienna bv Professor Zaifron and Dr. Natauach. were effected in .70 per cant, of surgical cases, and 38 per cent, of lan£ cases. Professor G. Dreyer recently announced, at the Institute of Pathology and Research.an important advance it» the treatment of consumption. The new method, he salfi, was mccb mora efficacious than the system of inoculation. Stating the position eixnpry,.ba said, every germ, however minate, bad a coating containing a anbatanae which prevented, the natural defensive mechanism of tho human body from destroying it. He had succeeded in reducing the coating, and thus rendered tho germ amenable to inocolatrre treatment. Over «0 cases hare bate treated by Professor Drcya's method in the London Hospital and nnprore ment has been shown*in nearrr aC cases. Some oases hare bees under treatment for five years.